The Roman Epic abounds in moral and poetical defects; nevertheless it remaine THIRD EDITION. PHILADELPHIA: CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, D.D., LL.D., MY DEAR BISHOP: BISHOP OF PENNSYLVANIA. I desire to connect your name with whatever may be useful and valuable in this work, to show my high appreciation of your fervent piety, varied learning, and elegant literary accomplishments; and, also, far more than this, to record the personal acknowledgment that no man ever had a more constant, judicious, generous and affectionate brother, than you have been to me, for forty years of intimate and unbroken association. Most affectionately and faithfully yours, HENRY COPPÉE. |